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It's overcast here today and I'm done with all my chores and errands so I'm waiting to go to lunch.

TOTD: I used to drive professionally a lot - all over the western part of the country. I would just listen to whatever came in best on the radio and that was mostly country stations. I can't really recommend a road or album. I used to feel bitter and envious over all the cozy homes I passed. I was on the road 3 weeks out of 4 and it basically sucked.

Bought my daughter a car a couple days ago. She loves the car although I wondered if dhe wouldn't think a eldorado was a 'granny "car. Only thing she mentioned was the cassette disk player had to go since she didn't own but 2 or 3 cassettes. Her brother & her went to the store today and got a USB MP3 car-stereo with SD reader.

The 21st century. The age of Smart phones and Stupid people.

It is said that branches draw their life from the vine. Each is separate yet all are one as they share one life giving stem . The Bible tells us we are called to a similar union in life, our lives with the life of God. We are incorporated into him; made sharers in his life. Apart from this union we can do nothing.

A few albums that I especially like listening to on long car trips:
1. A Best of Johnny Cash album
2. Jona Kimbrough (She is a small- time Christian singer who got her start in my church), 'Morning Skiesr'
3. The soundtrack for the movie "Barnyard."
4. The soundtracks for any of the 'Shrek' movies.

I love to drive out west. There's nothing to make one appreciate America than driving out Highway 70, heading due west, going through Kansas, then entering Colorado, driving through the plains til the first glimpse of the Rocky Mountains. Going over the Continental Divide is always an experience, no matter how many times. I know it sounds cheesy, but I love to listen to John Denver when approaching the mountains, you know that old "Rocky Mountain High" thing. There's something about his nasaly voice that's appropriate to "fill up your senses".

Another greyt route is along the Pacific Highway in California. My all time favorite is the Sea to Sky highway near Vancouver, BC, from the Vancouver area to Whistler ski area.

Thanks for this topic, Bubba. Think I'll put on some of my "travelling" music and relax. My fav song while driving is "Moving down the Highway".

It's overcast here today and I'm done with all my chores and errands so I'm waiting to go to lunch.

TOTD: I used to drive professionally a lot - all over the western part of the country. I would just listen to whatever came in best on the radio and that was mostly country stations. I can't really recommend a road or album. I used to feel bitter and envious over all the cozy homes I passed. I was on the road 3 weeks out of 4 and it basically sucked.

Wow. You were a truck driver? Cool. (Well, you didn't actually say that, you said professional driver. Still, a mile is a mile.)

Yeah, I'm sure the road looks different if you spend that much time there.

I also enjoy tuning in local a.m. stations to drop in, briefly, to the community I'm passin gthrough.

I love to drive. I especially like driving in rural areas and seeing different parts of the country. Barns, fields, old houses, woods, mountains and everything else our great nation provides by way of scenery is a great gift nature gives us.

Sometimes I like to roll quietly, just listening to the sound of the engine and the road, but music and the highway go so well together. Music can accentuate the experience of travel, alleviate boredom, make you think, make you smile.

I get my kicks on Route 66. Highway 61 Revisited and It's a highway song, sing it on and on, on and on....

It's a perfect time to listen to albums. The whole thing..front to back, in order as the artist arranged it.

TOTD: Tunes. Saturday Jukebox. Albums and songs for the open road. Also, name the road. I've never been on Route 66. I've been on Highway 41 with the Allman Brothers.

How about an album or song, and maybe even a road to drive and listen to it. I'll share later.

In the past, I've found I really like listening to The Doors Greatests Hits (double album)...good stuff...on long road trips, of course...or anytime, really...

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." H.P. Lovecraft in Supernatural Horror in Literature

It is said that branches draw their life from the vine. Each is separate yet all are one as they share one life giving stem . The Bible tells us we are called to a similar union in life, our lives with the life of God. We are incorporated into him; made sharers in his life. Apart from this union we can do nothing.